Alumnotes
DON HERRIOTT ('72) is president and general manager of Roche Carolina, Inc., a company which develops new pharmaceuticals and the technology for making them.

JOHN PROUD ('73) teaches physics and mathematics at Punahou School in Honolulu, where he chairs the science department and is director of the school's Challenge Ropes Course. John earned his teaching credential at SSU and his M. Ed. at the University of Hawaii in 1984.

JOHN P. NORTON ('74) is business editor of the Pueblo Chieftain  in Colorado.

ROY SKINNER, JR. ('74) is the owner of a computer-based publishing business and a video production and distribution company in Douglas City, California.

RICHARD BROMAGEM ('75) is a field engineer for Mountain Computer Co., Scotts Valley.

MICHAEL W. McBRIDE ('75, physics & manage ment) is regional sales manager for the eastern states for Balzers Process Systems, Inc. A past president of the SSU Alumni Association, he earned his M.A. at the American Graduate School of International Management in 1977.

SCOTT C. ANDERSON ('78) is the producer of the LEGO project at Mindscape in Novato. He is the co-founder of Wild Duck, a computer graphics and educational software company in Rohnert Park which distributes his popular animation program, Fantavision . He has written widely on computer-generated video.

DENNIS GOODROW ('78) is the lead programmer in the "Kids group" at Mindscape, where he works on the LEGO project.

BRUCE ODEKIRK ('78) is Integrated Circuit Foundry manager at Sarif, Inc., an LCD imaging technology company in Vancouver, Washington. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1982.

ALBERT PLAMBECK ('78, physics & music) is a product marketing manager with KLA Instruments Corp. in San Jose. He has published on overlay metrology and the implementation of coherence probe microscopy.

STEPHAN R. CRANDALL ('82) develops software for Stratcom and lives in San Jose.

JIM PISANO ('82) is software engineering manager for INOVA Corp., a manufacturer of LED displays in Virginia. He was formerly a computer consultant for the psychology department at the University of Virginia.

DANIEL O'DONNELL ('83) is system administrator for a graphics local area network that produces on-air graphics for NBC network television.

STEPHANIE SNEDDEN ('83) is a graduate student and teaching and research assistant in astronomy at the University of Nebraska.

TOMAS VERA ('84) is laboratory services manager for an agricultural consulting firm in Fresno.

GEOFFREY A. WILSON ('84) designs lasers at Coherent Technologies in Boulder, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1992.

BENJAMIN BURRESS ('85) is a technical writer and editor working on NASA's forthcoming Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy. He formerly worked on its predecessor, the Kuiper Air borne Observatory. Before that he taught high school mathematics and physics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.

KEYVAN FARAHANI ('85) is an adjunct assistant professor of biomedical physics at UCLA, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1993. He works on magnetic resonance imaging. He received the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Student Research Award and the J.T. Case Certificate of Merit for outstanding research in radiological sciences in 1989.

THOMAS FOSS ('85) is government accounts analyst for ANR Freight System, Inc. in Colorado.

TOM McMAHON ('85) is a senior instrumentation engineer at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, where his work on instruments for the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica has taken him to the South Pole (from which he sent e-mail to the Department). He earned his M.S. in instrumentation physics at the University of Utah in 1990.

JAY NOCETO ('85) is director of radio frequency engineering with Bay Area Cellular Telephone Company.

LEE STEELE ('85) is a self-employed technical writer in Mt. View. He has documented telecommunica tions and electronics hardware and CAD/CAM software.

GEORGE AMORINO ('86) is conducting research at vascular biology and studying cell interactions in arteriosclerosis. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular radiobiology at Colorado State University in 1995. He received his M.S. in biomedical engineering from California State University, Sacramento in 1988.

BRUCE CLARK ('86) is a systems engineer working with magnetic resonance imaging systems for Toshiba America MRI in South San Francisco.

L. RUSSELL BEST ('86) is wastewater permits manager for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. He has also been a lecturer in civil engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he received his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering in 1989.

SCOTT ROWLANDS ('86) is an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa.

JAMES AROYAN ('87) is a researcher in marine mammal bioacoustics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1996. A specialist in bioacoustic simulation and musical acoustics, he is also a consultant on elastic wave propagation.

VALERIE LEPPERT ('87, physics & chemistry) earned a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University in 1993. The holder of a previous B.A. in biology from SSU, she is now researching quantum confinement effects in semiconductor nanocrystals at UC Davis and UC Berkeley.

KERRY KING ('87, physics & expressive arts) is an instructional aide and tutor in physical sciences and mathematics at Santa Rosa Jr. College.

CHARLES CARPENTER ('88) is a specialist with Computer Science Corp. at Edwards Air Force Base.

DAVID MARSHALL ('88) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in mathematics at Humboldt State University, where he also maintains the math department's computer network, labs, and web pages.

LOU SANCHEZ-CHOPITEA ('88) is a senior software engineer at Xilinx, a manufacturer of programmable logic control systems in San Jose.

PHILIP CULLEN ('89) is a technical services supervisor at Lam Research Corp., a leading manufacturer of plasma etch equipment for semiconductor manufacturing in Fremont.

LAUREN NOVATNE ('89) is an environmental health specialist for the County of Monterey. In Fall 1996 she will begin graduate study in physics at California State University, Fresno, where she has accepted a teaching assistantship.

MARC AFIFI ('89, physics & communication studies) is teaching physics and chemistry at Pacific Grove High School on the Monterey Peninsula. He has worked two summers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He earned his secondary credential in physical science at SSU in 1990.

JON C. DAVIS ('89) is an electro-mechanical designer at Hewlett-Packard in Rohnert Park.

STEPHEN K. MOSIER ('90) is a medical student at the State University of New York at Brooklyn.

FRANCIS MORAES ('90) is an assistant professor of physics at Portland State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1995 in atmospheric physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, where he was a Dept. of Energy Global Change Fellow.

SUSAN KNAUS OSBORN ('90) is an engineering manager at Meridian Data, Inc. in Scotts Valley, where she works on software testing and hardware qualifications.

ANDREW PERI ('91) is a graduate student in geography at San Francisco State University, where he is specializing in the use of geographic information systems for environmental management and land use planning.

IMME STAEFFLER ('91) is program director in a residential treatment program for the psychiatrically disabled in Sonoma County.

MARIE-CHRISTINE RAUDE ('91) is a process engineer with Precision Lamp, Inc., Cotati.

ROBERT ST. CLAIR ('91) is a customer support engineer with Hewlett-Packard Co., Santa Rosa.

ANTHONY BLUME ('92) is a research and development engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Colorado Springs, CO.

STEVEN GROSSBERG ('92) is teaching math and science at Geyserville Middle School. He earned his teaching credential in 1994 at SSU, where he taught three summers in the Upward Bound program.

TINA DEARMIN ROSENBERG ('92) is a full-time mother in Windsor.

MATTHEW DAVIS ('93) is teaching science at Grange Middle School in Fairfield. He earned his credential at SSU in 1995.

ALAN DUQUETTE ('93) is minister of manufacturing at the Republic of Tea in Novato.

NICKO MELVILLE ('93) works on electrical and solar-powered cars at AeroVironment, Inc. in southern California. He earned his M.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Davis in 1995.

GEOFF SYPHERS ('93) is an energy efficiency consultant in San Francisco. In 1995 he earned an M.S. in energy engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he developed a concentrating photovoltaic power system for satellites.

ELSE SCHMIDT ('94) is an electrical engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Santa Rosa.

LISA CHRISTENSEN ('94) is teaching honors physics, conceptual physics, and general science at Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Atherton. She earned her master's degree and teaching credential at Stanford University in 1995.

JEFF KAVANAUGH ('94) is a doctoral student and research assistant in geophysics at the University of British Columbia. Research takes him to glaciers each summer.

MARK LENHART ('94, physics & computer science) is building computers at ARM Systems in Cotati.

CHERIE MONTAGUE COPELAND ('96) is an engineer at Optoelectronics/Textron in Petaluma.

BILL DOVER ('96) is a manager at Optoelectronics/Textron in Petaluma.